On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:23:20 +0000, Summercool wrote:

> On Sep 16, 10:36 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> The `*.pyc` files are usually only created when you import a module, not
>> when a module is run directly.
> 
> how come a program that runs directly doesn't need to be optimized
> into bytecode first?

Programs need to be compiled to bytecode and they actually are.  The
bytecode is just not dumped into a file but compiled at every run.

Ciao,
        Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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